From: combee AT cambridge DOT scr DOT slb DOT com (Leendert Combee)
Subject: thanks on Re: help with reading floats from file
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 1994 21:49:06 +0100 (BST)


   Thanks to anyone who pointed out that byte swapping between Sun and
   PC was probably sufficient to pass floating point numbers, as this 
   was indeed the case. Obviously, I realize that it may not work when 
   I move to other platforms, but for the time being :

   o I don't have to invent/adopt an unversal 4byte/value exchange format
     (like the one byte/character that map one-to-one across any platform;
      I wonder to whom we owe that benefit....),

   o it works and as I need to read in >300000 floats at the same time,
     using fread is much, much faster than fscanf's (of course).
 
   Leendert